Software Engineer Senior Manager

Lead Software Engineer

At Allstate, great things happen when our people work together to protect families and their belongings from life's uncertainties. And for more than 90 years our innovative drive has kept us a step ahead of our customers' evolving needs. From advocating for seat belts, air bags and graduated driving laws, to being an industry leader in pricing sophistication, telematics, and, more recently, device and identity protection.

The Sr. Engineering Manager is the direct leader of more critical groups with significant responsibilities. These groups may sometimes be more heavily resourced with more senior staff or more staff in general or be responsible for more technically complex or strategically important parts of the architecture or product. Sr. Engineering Managers are expected to build relationships throughout the organization to ensure whole-company alignment and support for their goals, and vice-versa. The Sr. Engineering Manager architects and designs their digital products using modern tools, technologies, frameworks, and systems. They apply a systematic application of scientific and technological knowledge, methods, and experience to the design, implementation, testing, and documentation of software. They own and manage running their application in production, and ultimately becomes accountable for the success of their digital products through achieving KPIs.

We are seeking a seasoned Lead Software Engineer with 15–18 years of experience in full-stack and distributed systems development. This role demands deep expertise in Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, React, SQL, and ETL tools along with emerging capabilities in LLMs, Agentic AI, and LangChain. The ideal candidate will be a strategic technical leader, driving architecture, innovation, and delivery across a high-volume, data-intensive platform.

You will lead engineering efforts to modernize legacy data platform/systems, architect scalable microservices, and integrate advanced AI capabilities into our data flows. This role is pivotal in shaping the future of our Agency Pay platform and broader engineering ecosystem.

Key Responsibilities:

• Architect & Lead: Design and implement scalable microservices and data pipelines using Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, and ETL Tools. Design and implement reusable React components with a focus on modularity and scalability.
• Collaborate: Work closely with IT/platform Architects, product managers, engineers, and business stakeholders to define the platform's technical and business functionality.
• AI Integration: Design and implement intelligent agents using LangChain and LLMs to automate decision-making and enhance platform intelligence.
• Modernization: Lead migration of legacy systems to cloud-native, event-driven architectures.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Partner with architects, product managers, and business stakeholders to define and deliver platform capabilities.
• Mentorship & Leadership: Guide and mentor engineers across geographies, fostering a culture of learning and innovation.
• DevOps & CI/CD: Champion best practices in CI/CD, observability, and performance optimization.
• Design Reviews & Retrospectives: Promote empathy, feedback, and continuous improvement through structured team rituals.
• Provide leadership in planning, task definition, reporting, and problem-solving across geographically distributed teams.
• Implement performance testing, monitoring, and optimization practices using modern tools and methodologies.

Required Qualifications:

• 15–18 years of hands-on experience in Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, and SQL.
• Strong front-end experience with React and integration with backend services.
• Proven experience in cloud-native architectures (Azure preferred).
• Familiarity with big data tools like Spark, Hadoop.
• Expertise in ETL tools (Ab-initio) for data processing and orchestration.
• Experience in LLM integration, LangChain, and Agentic AI frameworks.
• Demonstrated success in leading distributed teams and delivering complex systems at scale.

Preferred Skills:

• Hands-on experience building agentic workflows using LangChain, integrating LLMs for task automation, and deploying AI-driven services in production.
• Experience with event-driven architectures and stream processing.
• Knowledge of data governance, security, and compliance in enterprise environments.

Why Join Us?

• Be a part of Enterprise Shared Services - contributing to the development & transformation of tech platform that is redefining quick and seamless data flow to end users.
• Your work will directly impact how data flows across our enterprise, enabling smarter, faster decisions powered by AI.
• Work with diverse, high-performing teams across different geographies, with growth opportunities in genAI & leadership roles.
• Our team values collaboration and continuous learning, offering ample opportunities to take the lead on innovative projects.

About Allstate

Joining our team isn't just a job — it's an opportunity. One that takes your skills and pushes them to the next level. One that encourages you to challenge the status quo. One where you can shape the future of protection while supporting causes that mean the most to you. Joining our team means being part of something bigger – a winning team making a meaningful impact.

The Allstate Corporation is one of the largest publicly held insurance providers in the United States. Ranked No. 84 in the 2023 Fortune 500 list of the largest United States corporations by total revenue, The Allstate Corporation owns and operates 18 companies in the United States, Canada, Northern Ireland, and India. Allstate India Private Limited, also known as Allstate India, is a subsidiary of The Allstate Corporation. The India talent center was set up in 2012 and operates under the corporation's Good Hands promise. As it innovates operations and technology, Allstate India has evolved beyond its technology functions to be the critical strategic business services arm of the corporation. With offices in Bengaluru and Pune, the company offers expertise to the parent organization's business areas including technology and innovation, accounting and imaging services, policy administration, transformation solution design and support services, transformation of property liability service design, global operations and integration, and training and transition.